Canine Companions: Life behind bars gets new meaning through service dog training

Welcome back thank you for spending part of your evening with us inmates at the Crossroads Correctional Center have a unique opportunity to give back to the community two of the inmates you’ll meet tonight are serving life sentences for murder MTN’s Elizabeth transou takes us to Shelby for this report in an unforgiving place I kind of been bounced around from prison to prison memories can fade I’ve got 106 till I discharged time is abundant I think I see the board in 2047 and for some on the inside there’s a companion they see you for who you are and love you for it life behind bars is often spent thinking my crime wasn’t something that I’m proud of or really don’t like to talk about but role gives the inmates of the Crossroads Correctional Center port a glimpse of something they may never have again okay freedom raisin George makes me feel that I’m giving something back for something that I’ve taken in a year George sight the dogs will move on good boy that’s all it’s not uncommon for us to shed a couple of Tears to help someone in me best thing that from getting a parole is probably knowing that they graduated she tells us all the time that he’s her best friend and legitimately he is katie has cerebral palsy he provides a communication bridge for her that we you couldn’t create otherwise thank to the McGraw family it doesn’t matter where this dog came from the people who are raising the dogs in that facility they’re giving them 100% of their time and attention as for Richard and Gary their freedom will waste let’s go by Katie’s freedom you’re my best thing is just beginning it doesn’t matter to me who’s raising them someone who’s willing to do that for another human being it shall be George gentle I say thank you Elizabeth transou MTN news